John 5:18-33

¹⁸The Jewish leaders SYN considered that he was disobeying their rules about ◄the Sabbath/the day of rest►, and that by saying that God was his Father, he was making himself equal with God. And they considered that both these things were grounds for killing him. So they tried even harder to find a way to kill him.

¹⁹Jesus replied to them by saying, “You need to know this: I can do nothing by my own authority. I do only the kind of things that I see my Father doing. Whatever kinds of things my Father is doing, those are the things I am doing.

²⁰My Father loves me, and he shows me everything that he is doing. He will show me the miracles that he wants me to do that will be greater than the ones that you have already seen me do, so that you may be amazed.

²¹For example, just like my Father causes people who have died to become alive again, I will give eternal life to everyone that I want to.

²²Furthermore, my Father is not the one who judges people concerning their sins. Instead, he has given to me the work of judging people,

²³in order that all people may honor me, just like they honor my Father. My Father considers that anyone who does not honor me is not honoring him, the one who sent me.

²⁴Listen to this carefully: Those who hear my message and believe that God is the one who sent me have eternal life. God will not ◄condemn them/say that he will punish them►. They are no longer separated from God. Instead, they have eternal life.

²⁵Listen to this carefully: There will be a time when those who are ◄spiritually dead/separated from God► will hear the voice of me, ◄the Son of God/the man who is also God►. In fact, it is that time already. Those who hear and pay attention to my message will have eternal life.

²⁶My Father has power to make things live. Similarly, he has given me the power to enable people to live eternally.

²⁷Because I am the one who came from heaven, he has given me the authority to judge people concerning their sins.

²⁸Do not be surprised about that, because there will be a time when all people who have died will hear my voice,

²⁹and they will become alive again. Those who have lived good lives will rise from their graves and live forever. But those who have lived evil lives will rise, and I will ◄condemn them/declare that I will punish them for their sins►.

³⁰I do not do anything like that by my own authority. I judge people only according to what I hear my Father tell me. I will judge people fairly, because I do not want to please only myself. Instead, I want to please my Father, who sent me.

³¹If I were the only one to tell people about myself, people could rightly say that what I say is not true.

³²But there is someone else who tells people about me. And I know that what he tells people about me is true.

³³As for you, when you sent messengers to John the Baptizer to ask about me, he told the truth about me.